Noah Davis (politician)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis (born September 10, 1818 in Haverhill , New Hampshire , † March 20, 1902 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1869 and 1870 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Noah Davis was born in Grafton County about three years after the end of the British-American War . The family moved to Albion in 1825 . He attended community schools and the Lima Seminary in Buffalo . Then he studied law in Lewiston . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Gainesville and Buffalo. In February 1844 he returned to Albion, where he continued his practice as a lawyer until May 1858. He was appointed Justice of the New York Supreme Court for the 8th District Court in 1857 and was later elected twice - a post he held until 1868. After that he practiced as a lawyer again. Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the congressional elections of 1868 for the 41st Congress , Davis was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 28th Congressional constituency of New York , where he succeeded Lewis Selye on March 4, 1869 . However, he resigned from his seat in the US House of Representatives before the end of his term in office on July 15, 1870.

President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York - a post he held from July 20, 1870 until his resignation on December 31, 1872. At that point he was elected a judge on the New York Supreme Court. He held the post until 1887. He then went back to his practice as a lawyer in New York City. He also sat on the Council of the University of the City of New York (now New York University ). He died on March 20, 1902 in New York City. His body was then interred in Mount Albion Cemetery in Albion.

literature

• Ex-Justice Davis Dead , The New York Times, March 21, 1902
• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, p. 352

Web links

• Noah Davis (politicians) in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Noah Davis in the database of Find a Grave (English)